Resources

Building an Accessible Digital Workplace

2toLead partnered with the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) in Toronto to design an inclusive intranet and build awareness and skills around accessible content creation.

TRIUMF website

TRIUMF.ca was redesigned to improve accessibility and simplify complex scientific content for diverse users. The site features clear navigation, plain language and a balanced visual design with strong contrast and readability.

Travel Alberta: consumer website

Travel Alberta’s website was redesigned to meet WCAG 2.1 AA standards with accessibility integrated into planning, design and testing, fixing common issues like poor contrast and missing labels.

Access Ability 2: A Practical Handbook on Accessible Graphic Design

Adam Rallo RGD, Eric Forest RGD, James Kuo RGD, Randal Boutilier RGD, Edmund Li RGD

Revised + Supersized Second Edition. This book is meant for anyone involved in the process of designing communication materials. This is a broad group of individuals, including professional graphic designers, clients, educators, students, and many others. Some of you are accessibility experts. Some of you have never even heard of the term accessible design until now.

A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experience

Sarah Horton & Whitney Quesenbery. Rosenfeld Media, 2013.

This book gives an introductory overview to the process of accessible and inclusive web design. It has a very user-centric focus, with special considerations for the diverse range of people who may be considered outliers.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)

w3.org/TR/WCAG/

This document covers a wide range of recommendations for making web content more accessible. These guidelines are utilized in most web accessibility standards and compliance. The WcAG 2.1 is currently the most up-to-date version, and it is backwards compatible with the WcAG 2.0. This means that content that conforms to WcAG 2.1 also conforms to WcAG 2.0.

Diverse Abilities and Barriers

W3C’s Diverse Abilities and Barriers page describes a wide range of disabilities and the barriers each experience when they encounter inaccessible websites and apps.

W3C Web Accessibility Initiative

This site acts as a hub for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3c)’s extensive accessibility initiatives, strategies, standards, and resources.

Web Accessibility in Mind (WebAIM)

This site is an exceptional resource for accessible design. WebAIM offers complete web accessibility services, and their website also provides practical articles and unique research on the subject.

Accessible Colour Palette Builder

This palette builder creates a quick grid that tells you what combinations will meet or fail 4.5:1 contrast ratio.

Colour Accessibility Testing Tool

Colour accessibility tool including different colour blindness and vision comparisons.

Web Accessibility Testing Tools

Webinar provided by Vision Australia on accessibility testing tools and methods for web. Provides a good introduction on the mindset and approaches you should use when accessibility testing a website.

Building Brands Optimized for Accessibility by Sabrina Young RGD

In the talk, Sabrina will share details to help you automate the tedious, optimize accessibility and improve brand consistency, throughout your document designs, while gaining more time for your creative process.

Common Accessibility Issues and How to Fix Them

Would you like to learn more about the most common design-related accessibility problems and how to fix them? During the webinar, we will look at design examples with accessibility issues related to the usage of colour, colour contrast, keyboard functionality and more. We will see what groups of users are affected by these problems and how to resolve them. We will also talk about accessibility annotations and how they can help to reduce developer decision-making efforts.

From InDesign to Acrobat: A practical guide to accessible PDF workflows

Accessibility is not just a technical requirement—it’s a design responsibility. In this session, Eric will walk us through a real-world workflow from InDesign to Acrobat that supports accessible document creation. Through tagging, reading order and metadata, we explore how to ensure digital documents are usable by all. Eric brings a practical, designer-first approach to accessibility, offering tools and insights that help embed inclusive practices into everyday design workflows.